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If you're donating storage and bandwidth to backup "files" up without specifying which ones, you're going to be backing up random peoples personal encrypted bac
by gpm 6y ago
If you're donating storage and bandwidth to backup "files" up without specifying which ones, you're going to be backing up random peoples personal encrypted backups which are useless to anyone who doesn't have the key.
In the end you need a decision layer to decide what to back up that decides what based on some standard of what's good for society.
But maybe you don't need to centralize the storage, I could imagine a distributed IA which mostly piggybacks on other people's storage.
- andrewmunsell 6y agoSpecifically, I'm referring to files that are supposed to be public to begin with like the Internet Archive. The goal there is to replicate the data and make it publicly accessible. There'd probably have to be some index (can IPNS be used for this?) to specify the root, and then you could specify you want to store XXX GB of random data from this root node.